January 20, 2006	Friday	Zilhaj 19, 1426

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Iran warns of oil crisis in case of sanctions TEHRAN, Jan 19: Iran again warned Western nations on Thursday they risked sparking an oil crisis if economic sanctions were slapped on Tehran over its disputed nuclear activities....		Italian troops to leave Iraq by end of year ROME, Jan 19: Italy will withdraw its existing force from Iraq by the end of the year, Defense Minister Antonio Martino announced Thursday. “The military operation Antica Babilonia (Ancient Babylon) will...
Monitors see ‘some fraud’ in Iraq vote BAGHDAD, Jan 19: Iraq’s December general election was marked by some fraud, but nothing that would call into question the final results, according to a team of foreign experts on Thursday....		Muslims oppose LTTE demands COLOMBO, Jan 19: As President Mahinda Rajapakse initiated an all party conference on Thursday to seek a southern consensus on a political solution to prevent another war with separatist Tiger guerillas,...
US begins lobbying IAEA officials VIENNA, Jan 19: The United States has already begun campaigning at the UN atomic watchdog for Iran to be taken to the UN Security Council for measures against its nuclear work...		Festival to honour Prithviraj MUMBAI, Jan 19: After delays due to paucity of funds and a clash of schedules, the 8th Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) festival will finally be held in March....
Why stress at work strains heart LONDON, Jan 19: Scientists in Britain said on Friday they had found evidence of why stress at work can raise the odds of developing heart disease and diabetes....		Girl gets reply to message in bottle LONDON, Jan 19: A four-year-old British girl was stunned to receive a reply to her message in a bottle from a boy in Australia, her nursery said Thursday....
Nasa sends first mission to Pluto CAPE CANAVERAL, Jan 19: The world’s first mission to Pluto blasted into space on Thursday on an Atlas 5 unmanned rocket to begin a nine-year journey to the only unexplored planet in the solar system....		Cyprus leader refuses to meet Straw NICOSIA, Jan 19: Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos has refused to see Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw when he visits the island next week because Straw will not back down on plans also to see the Turkish Cypriot leader....
Muslims call for release of US journalist WASHINGTON: Muslim and Arab-American groups from across North America have urged the kidnappers of a US journalist in Iraq to immediately release her, calling her abduction a violation of Islamic principles....		Ex-CIA chief to publish memoir WASHINGTON: George Tenet, the former CIA director who assured President George W. Bush that finding unconventional weapons in Iraq would be a “slam dunk” will give his account of the conversation...
Hamas swaps bullets for ballots UM TUBA: The Israeli policemen who wrestled Mohammed Abu Teir off to jail for illegal election campaigning in East Jerusalem this week probably did more to pile on the votes for the red-bearded sheikh than all the handshakes and sloganeering....		Kim came, saw and ponders reforms SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il came to China to look at the country’s economic reforms, saw many achievements he could apply back home,but will likely make few changes to his country’s anaemic economy, analysts said....
West has picked a fight with Iran it can’t win LONDON: Never pick a fight you know you cannot win. Or so I was told. Pick an argument if you must, but not a fight. Nothing I have read or heard...		The lost boys ROME: For three weeks, police kept the man under surveillance, watching as he picked up his merchandise in the outskirts of the city and dropped it off in one of Rome’s most attractive piazzas....
Maneka Gandhi terrorizes Bollywood MUMBAI: It was always difficult to be human in this country. Animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has made it tougher for some. Her perception of what constitutes cruelty to animals is...		Europe in search of space lab lift PARIS: Europe is looking to thumb a ride for its 1 billion euro ($1.21 billion) space laboratory which has been gathering dust on Earth since the US space shuttle was all but grounded after a 2003 crash....